I will have to google Evanston...I love places like that. Thanks for posting. Allison
From: Robert Blau <robert-blau@webtv.net>
To: geology2@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2011 10:36 PM
Subject: [Geology2] When in Evanston, Illinois, be sure to visit
Nationally known . . .
Dave's Down to Earth Rock Shop and Prehistoric Life Museum:
Evanston/Chicago jewelry, fossils, minerals, Native American jewelry,
crystals, gems, beads and gifts.
http://www.davesrockshop.com/
A marvelous place; VERY reasonable prices. I challenge you to get out
the door without purchasing anything. My girlfriend, the geology major,
got ELEVEN very nice mineral samples (including a gorgeous wood-like
sandstone, as well as red calcite, blue calcite, quartz amethyst, green
kyanite, blue kyanite, aragonite star, chrysacolla, agate, quartz geode,
and peridot in basalt) for just $50. Nice.
We found out about the place from a faculty member we happened to
encounter today while visiting Northwestern's Department of Earth and
Planetary Sciences (where my gf is thinking of applying to grad school).
Apparently a very complete department, it offers concentrations in
general geoscience, geophysics, earth materials, geochemistry, earth
history and paleobiology, climate science, and planetary science -- and
has faculty members whose specialties include geochemistry,
hydrogeochemistry, biogeochemistry, thermodynamics, mineral physics,
planetary geophysics, paleolimnology, paleoclimatology, biostratigraphy,
sedimentology, seismology, and tomography. Nice.
Dave's Down to Earth Rock Shop and Prehistoric Life Museum:
Evanston/Chicago jewelry, fossils, minerals, Native American jewelry,
crystals, gems, beads and gifts.
http://www.davesrockshop.com/
A marvelous place; VERY reasonable prices. I challenge you to get out
the door without purchasing anything. My girlfriend, the geology major,
got ELEVEN very nice mineral samples (including a gorgeous wood-like
sandstone, as well as red calcite, blue calcite, quartz amethyst, green
kyanite, blue kyanite, aragonite star, chrysacolla, agate, quartz geode,
and peridot in basalt) for just $50. Nice.
We found out about the place from a faculty member we happened to
encounter today while visiting Northwestern's Department of Earth and
Planetary Sciences (where my gf is thinking of applying to grad school).
Apparently a very complete department, it offers concentrations in
general geoscience, geophysics, earth materials, geochemistry, earth
history and paleobiology, climate science, and planetary science -- and
has faculty members whose specialties include geochemistry,
hydrogeochemistry, biogeochemistry, thermodynamics, mineral physics,
planetary geophysics, paleolimnology, paleoclimatology, biostratigraphy,
sedimentology, seismology, and tomography. Nice.
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